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Selected short fiction
Title:
Selected short fiction
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
ISBN:
9780140431032
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
Publication Information:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1985.
Physical Description:
431 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics
Series Title:
Penguin classics
General Note:
"First published in the Penguin English Library 1976"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Charles Dickens / Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Note on the text -- Tales of the supernatural: Story of the goblins who stole a Sexton -- Baron of Grogzwig -- Confession found in a prison in the time of Charles the second -- To be read at dusk -- Mugby junction: No. 1 branch line. The signalman -- Impressionistic sketches: Election for beadle -- Seven dials -- Meditations in Monmouth-Street -- Visit to Newgate -- A Christmas tree -- A fight -- Our school -- Lying awake -- The uncommercial traveller: His general line of business -- Refreshments for travellers -- Travelling abroad -- City of London Churches -- Shy neighbourhoods -- Dullborough town -- Nurse's stories -- Arcadian London -- Calais night-mail -- Dramatic monologues: Somebody's luggage: His leaving it til called for -- His brown-paper parcel -- His wonderful end -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy: Mrs. Lirriper relates how she went on, and went over -- Mrs. Lirriper relates how Jemmy topped up -- Doctor Marigold's prescriptions: To be talen immediately -- To be taken for life -- Mugby Junction: Main line. The boy at Mugby -- George Silverman's explanation -- Descriptive headlines, 1867-8 --
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